JOENSUU — Results from the Joensuu Games – European Permit track and field meeting which took place in Finland on Wednesday, July 22, 2009. The meeting was part of the Vattenfall Elite Games, an international series of track and field competitions held in Finland.
Athletes from across the global – places such as Jamaica, USA, South Africa and Russia, among representatives from other countries – compete against local athletes for a chance to win the valued prize give aways.
MEN
100 m Race A Wind: -1.3
1 Lerone Clarke JAM 10.25; 2 Leroy Dixon USA 10.31; 3 Kelly Willie USA 10.43; 4 Ricardo Williams JAM 10.59; 5 Jarkko Ruostekivi FIN 10.70; 6 Jari Suikka FIN 10.91
200 m Race Wind: -0.5
1 Kelly Willie USA 20.70; 2 Leroy Dixon USA 20.92; 3 Lerone Clarke JAM 21.18; 4 Ricardo Williams JAM 21.20; 5 Jarkko Ruostekivi FIN 21.63; 6 Hannu Hämäläinen FIN 21.82 800 m Race A 1 Kevin Hicks USA 1:48.41; 2 Warren Hendricks RSA 1:48.49; 3 Joni Jaako SWE 1:48.58; 4 Tommy Granlund FIN 1:49.37; 5 Rami Oravakangas FIN 1:49.52; 6 Matt Scherer USA 1:49.79; 7 Robert Rotkirch FIN 1:49.81; 8 Willy Rotich KEN 1:49.83; 9 Mikael Bergdahl FIN 1:50.03; 10 Matthew Boateng GHA 1:51.56
3000 m Race
1 Jukka Keskisalo FIN 7:49.05; 2 Remmy Limo KEN 7:50.78; 3 Lewis Korir KEN 8:01.10; 4 Matti Räsänen FIN 8:05.02; 5 Riku Marttinen FIN 8:11.38; 6 Janne Ukonmaanaho FIN 8:14.73; 7 Henok Tsegai ETH 8:15.91; 8 Jarkko Hamberg FIN 8:16.56; 9 Henri Manninen FIN 8:19.75; 10 Kalle Ruohola FIN 8:24.55; 11 Joonas Harjamäki FIN 8:25.87; 12 Pekka Toivola FIN 8:26.99; 13 Aki Mustonen FIN 8:30.22; 14 Joonas Lehtinen FIN 8:31.91
110 m hurdles Wind: -1.5
1 Joel Brown USA 13.60; 2 Tim Bogdanof USA 13.87; 3 Juha Sonck FIN 13.94; 4 Antti Korkealaakso FIN 14.20; 5 Arttu Hirvonen FIN 14.58; 6 Arttu Niinikoski FIN 14.94
High Jump
1 Normunds Pupols LAT 2.18m; 2 Jussi Viita FIN 2.14; 3 Henderson Dottin BAR 2.14
Long Jump
1 Kim Deok-Hyung KOR 8.17m; 2 Tommi Evilä FIN 8.00; 3 James Beckford JAM 7.83; 4 Michal Rosiak POL 7.52; 5 Jarno Tenhunen FIN 7.27
Hammer Throw
1 Olli-Pekka Karjalainen FIN 77.26m; 2 David Söderberg FIN 72.68; 3 Jens Rautenkranz GER 72.66; 4 Joachim Koivu FIN 66.96
Javelin Throw
1 Teemu Wirkkala FIN 87.23m; 2 Antti Ruuskanen FIN 85.03; 3 Park Jae-Myong KOR 79.88; 4 Viljo Toivanen FIN 78.26; 5 Harri Haatainen FIN 75.87; 6 Vítezslav Veselý CZE 74.92; 7 Jung Sang-Jin KOR 74.38; 8 Mika Aalto FIN 74.00 9 Lassi Etelätalo FIN
WOMEN
100 m Wind: -1.0
1 Sheri-Ann Brooks JAM 11.39; 2 Gloria Asumnu USA 11.40; 3 Jekaterina Cekele LAT 11.90; 4 Noora Hämäläinen FIN 12.14
200m Race Wind: -0.5
1 Gloria Asumnu USA 22.88; 2 Sheri-Ann Brooks JAM 23.02; 3 Dominique Holmes USA; 4 Sari Keskitalo FIN 24.11; 5 Miriam Barnes USA 24.28
800m
1 Natallia Kareiva BLR 2:04.99; 2 Olha Yekymenko UKR 2:05.03; 3 Suvi Selvenius FIN 2:05.07; 4 Maria Leosk EST 2:07.71; 5 Anna Titova LAT 2:08.03; 6 Jevgenia Mateitšuk EST 2:10.60; 7 Jeanine Nygård FIN 2:12.72; 8 Hanna Haavikko FIN 2:13.25; 9 Kaisa Tyni FIN 2:13.70
1500m
1 Alfiya Khasanova RUS 4:16.72; 2 Mari Järvenpää FIN 4:17.45; 3 Heidi Eriksson FIN 4:19.30; 4 Saara Skyttä FIN 4:24.73; 5 Olesya Tyurina RUS 4:25.02; 6 Annika Rikberg FIN 4:30.99; 7 Kristina Dolmatova EST 4:39.40; 8 Jaana Honkanen FIN 4:42.89
100m hurdles Wind: -1.8
1 Johanna Halkoaho FIN 13.79; 2 Ida Aidanpää FIN 14.29; 3 Hanna-Maari Latvala FIN 14.51;
High Jump
1 Deirdre Mullen USA 1.91m; 2 Anna Iljuštšenko EST 1.85; 3 Lavern Spencer LCA 1.85; 4 Hanna Grobler FIN 1.85; 5 Elina Smolander FIN 1.79; 6 Tiina Hakanen FIN 1.76
Long Jump
1 Brittney Reese USA 6.62m; 2 Jovanee Jarrett JAM 6.53; 3 Lauma Griva LAT 6.30; 4 Yekaterina Malysheva RUS 6.12; 5 Elina Sorsa FIN 6.09; 6 Marika Partinen FIN 5.77
Pole Vault
1 Minna Nikkanen FIN 4.36m; 2 Vanessa Vandy FIN 4.26; 3 Anastasiya Savchenko RUS 4.15; 4 Melinda Owen USA 4.00; 5 Carita Kröger FIN 3.50
Javelin Throw
1 Oona Sormunen FIN 54.84m; 2 Suh Hae-An KOR 53.84; 3 Laura Whittingham GBR 49.95;
